Trunk



(No Model.)

H. W. ROUNTREE;

TRUNK.

No. 399,439. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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H] llli WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY \V. ROUNTREE, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,489, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed December 21, 1888. Serial No, 294,341. (No model.)

To (LU 11111-0122 it may concern.-

If it desired to have the tray set lower in Be it known that I, HENRY \\.R0UN'1REE, the trunk, the supporting-strips C may be of Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Trunks, of which the i be cut away or formed with a recess, (:7, on its following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improvenient in trunks designed to give access to the bottom of the trunk without the neces' 3 sity of lifting the tray out of the trunk; and i to that end it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the tray and its supports in the trunk, whereby the tray may he slid hack on a horizontal line into the hinged lid or top when open without lifting is a su 'iporting-strip for the tray, one of r lid or (cover, and snpporting-strips for the which is arranged at each end of the trunk, near the upper edge of the same. The rear edge of the trunk at a is out down or reduced in height a little, so as to leave this edge a little below the upper surface oi the supportingstrips C, so as to be out of the wayot' the out being lifted, and it the space thus opened is not large enough the front section, I), of the trayis thrown back on its hinges over the section D, as shown in dotted lines, which gives free access to the bottom of the trunk to remove any large article that may be contained in the trunk.

fixed to the trunk at lower levels, and instead of cutting down the back edge of the trunk at a the rear lower portion of the tray may under side, as in Fig. 2, so that only the top portion of the tray protrudes into the lid of the trunk when forced back.

In making use of my invention the lid of the trunk is simply raised and the tray forced straight: back into the same without raising it", and in closing the trunk the folding of the lid forward forces the tray to its place without: having to touch the tray at all.

Having thus descrihed my invention, what I claim as new isl. The combination, with a trunk, its hinged lid or cover, and supporting-strips for the tray fixed to the ends of the trunk, of a tray sustained upon these strips and adapted to slide horimntally hack on said supports so as to protrut'lc into the hinged cover, substantially as described.

2. The eonihinaiitm, with a trunk, its hinged tray lived to the ends of the trunk, of a tray sustaiiwd upon these strips and made in two hinged sections and adapted to slide horizontally hack on said supports so as to protrude into the hinged cover, substantially as descrihed.

3. .The eonihinz'rtion ol' the trunk having its rear edge, (I, cut down or reduced in height, the supporting end strips, having their upper edge higher than the rear edges of the trunk, and provided with anti-friction rollers, and the tray made in two hinged sections and arranged upon the rollers on the strips to slide horizontall haeleinto the lid of the trunk when raised.

HENRY ROUN'JREE.

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EDwD. W. 3YRN, CHAS. A. PETTII. 

